Inside sadness
denial is a sweet bird
truth waits.

Karen McVean

your manufactured self
has finally reached
its expiry date

Dawn Mok

Birthday Haiku (Liberty Remix)

New shoes white and sporty
now Noo Noo's newly forty
nimble, neat and naughty.

Sharkbite von Herringattack

Birthday Haiku (Dub Version)

out of sorts
out of body
out of time

Ian Row

Birthday Haiku (Acapella)

pressies, messages,
calls wishing love and life
did you feel that?

Ian Row

a crack in the wall
the coastal route to Gippsland
reminiscing

Ian Row

roberta flack wails
wafting through the corridor
michael's home

Ian Row

Birthday Haiku (Alternate Take)

the big 4-0
if you don't listen to it
it's not happening

Ian Row

Birthday Haiku (Original 7")

want to meet the man
who can chart my destiny
and undo the plot

Ian Row

Christmas Haiku [2007 Part 3]

post-Christmas sales
i find my shoes then lose you
harsh words spoken

Ian Row

i.
so quiet
at your place; so hard
to fall asleep

ii.
rolling into you,
into the middle; time's up
10 y.o. mattress

Ian Row

Christmas Haiku [2007 Part 2]

i.
Midst shopping frenzy
a simple miracle of love -
god as man on earth

Cathy Dineen

ii.
Deck the halls
With pain and mercy
Christmas turkey.

Karen McVean

iii.
What the world
Needs now is a bright star
Appearing soon.

Karen McVean

iv.
Put another
Present under the tree
For me

Karen McVean

v.
Joy to all
May our egos and pricks
Get a conscience.

Karen McVean

vi.
a married friend
under the mistletoe
her lips part

Bill Kenney

Christmas Haiku [2007 Part 1]

i.
oh shop til you drop
it's so easy to forget
the Christ Child was born

Leah Billeam

ii.
Hey, Christmas ears
Danny Krivit edits by Mr K.
Dance to the music

Karen McVean

iii.
Whoa, dancing ooh.
Sweet thing, dancing, dancing
Get down, yeah, yeah.

Karen McVean

iv.
Dashing through the crowd
in a one-eyed search for gifts
oh what fucking fun.

Chris Gill

halfway up drainpipes
never mind the circulation
how stupid you look

Ian Row

treadmill virgin
moment of spasticity
which foot forward?

Ian Row

the inelegance
of an overgrown toenail
keep your sandals on

Neve

Ode to a Secondment

time to move on up
from family to new times
in a new time zone

Cathy Dineen

A haiku about predictive function

predictive function
an 'offer' turns into 'needs',
'cake' becomes 'able'

Ian Row